George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-30] of 65 George Bernard Shaw quotesGeorge Bernard Shaw QuotesGeorge Bernard Shaw Next 30 quotes A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.~ George Bernard Shaw If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.~ George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.~ George Bernard Shaw The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.~ George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.~ George Bernard Shaw There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.~ George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.~ George Bernard Shaw You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.~ George Bernard Shaw All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.~ George Bernard Shaw People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.~ George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.~ George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.~ George Bernard Shaw The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.~ George Bernard Shaw A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.~ George Bernard Shaw The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.~ George Bernard Shaw My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.~ George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.~ George Bernard Shaw The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.~ George Bernard Shaw Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.~ George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.~ George Bernard Shaw The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity.~ George Bernard Shaw If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.~ George Bernard Shaw All great truths began as blasphemies.~ George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.~ George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.~ George Bernard Shaw Lack of money is the root of all evil.~ George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.~ George Bernard Shaw Marx’s Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.~ George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.~ George Bernard Shaw Next 30 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print